A dimensão causal-explicativa dos tipos ideais: a contribuição metodológica de Max Weber para a sociologia contemporânea

The article proposes a reading and updating of the ideal type of Max Weber from RolandGiere’s non-statement view. According to the latter, theories consist of theoretical models andhypotheses. From this, the ideal types of Weber do not consist of substantive propositions, butof theoretical idealizations that cannot be falsified, from which, however, hypotheses are derivedto be falsified or confirmed. The epistemological status of ideal Weber types does not consistof descriptive-causal propositions, but of definitions. In this way we achieve not only a newinterpretation of the weberian epistemological legacy, but also open the way for its interlocutionwith the current philosophy of science.